P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education is a regional project implemented by Youth for Peace in cooperation with the Balkans Let's Get Up! Organisation from Serbia and Udehtim i Lire from Albania. The implementation of the project is supported by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office - RYCO and the European Union.

Objectives of the project:

  1. To build capacities of youth workers and CSOs in the field of peace building and reconciliation with emphasis on capacities to foster effective implementation of peace education contents and values
  2. To create favourable environment where youth from the three parties can gather and go through transformative experience of dialogue and understanding “other side”

The project will be implemented over a period of 7 months in which two trainings for trainers in the field of peace education will be organized in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as youth exchange in Albania. In addition, one of the outputs of the project, will be creation of a peace education manual for trainers with a special focus on the Western Balkan.

Kick-off meeting of the project P.A.C.E - Peace and Conflict Education

Youth for Peace in cooperation with the Balkans Let's Get Up! Organisation from Serbia and Udhetim i Lire from Albania will implement the project "P.A.C.E. - Peace and Conflict Education" in the following 7 months. The project is supported by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office - RYCO and the European Union.

The kick-off meeting of this project was held on March 25, 2021, via the Zoom platform. The meeting was attended by representatives of all three organizations. During the meeting, the representatives of the organizations got acquainted in more detail with the project and what will be realized during the implementation. Given that the epidemiological situation is still unfavorable and the measures in force in Albania, BiH, and Serbia do not permit gatherings, the organizers decided to start field activities in June, if the situation allows.

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In the meantime, the partners will work on creating a program that can be offered to participants in an online format, if the situation with the coronavirus remains unfavorable and gatherings and travel are prohibited. The partners believe that the in-person meeting among the participants is of great, if not crucial importance in order to fully realize the goals of the project, so they will do everything in their power to hold the in-person meetings, respecting all measures, but above all thinking about the health of both - participants and staff involved in the implementation of activities.

In the next two months, the partners will work on the preparation of upcoming activities, creating two possible scenarios, but will also closely monitor the situation with the coronavirus in the region and implement activities accordingly.
More information coming soon on the website and social media of the project partners.